From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
To: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: re: Linux 2.4.17
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 19:34:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20011221193149.00ca6f00@mail.osagesoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0112211536430.16844-100000@waste.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0112211744080.7492-100000@freak.distro.conectiva>
At 06:10 PM 12/21/01, Oliver Oxymoron wrote:
>On Fri, 21 Dec 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>... There's always the risk of breaking something
>and you don't want to introduce a disk-eating bug between -rc and -final.
>It's better to ship one more -rc and wait a day before -final. If you
>don't, people will just get in the habit of waiting a day after -final to
>be safe.
>
> > I said I would make -rc kernels which would not add any new _feature_.
>
>That's less important.
I agree with releasing an extra -rc and waiting the extra day for -final.
My thought is that the _only_ difference between the last -rc and -final is
correctly setting "EXTRAVERSION=" in Makefile.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-22 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-21 20:16 Dan Kegel
2001-12-21 19:44 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2001-12-21 21:59 ` Dan Kegel
2001-12-21 22:11 ` Rik van Riel
2001-12-21 23:10 ` Oliver Xymoron
2001-12-22 0:34 ` David Relson [this message]
2001-12-22 0:52 ` Mike Castle
2001-12-22 5:19 ` Craig I. Hagan
2001-12-22 8:15 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-12-21 21:09 ` David Gomez
2001-12-22 4:12 ` John Alvord
2001-12-22 18:12 ` David A. Frantz
2001-12-22 23:05 ` Alan Cox
2001-12-22 5:45 ` Bernd Eckenfels
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-12-21 16:45 Marcelo Tosatti
2001-12-21 19:13 ` Steven Spence
2001-12-21 19:15 ` Steven Spence
2001-12-22 11:56 ` Mike Black
2001-12-22 17:59 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2001-12-22 23:41 ` J.A. Magallon
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